Managerial power and control Societies (Psyche socialization within hypermodern corporations)

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Building on the theories of power put forward by Foucault and those developed in clinical sociology, our research explores the psycho-sociological aspects of managerial power and how it impacts on modern societies. More specifically, our thesis considers the dynamic functioning of the managerial structure of power in corporations. We describe a global mediation control process of socialization based on a functional correspondence between psychic structures and organizational structures, through the workings of corporate managerial devices of power. We analyze the control mechanisms of the subjectivation process leading to a hegemonic organizational system normalizing behaviors. This way, our research identifies a view of managerial power regime as the typical biopower of Control Societies. Close attention is paid to both psychic and subjective conditions of the contemporary subject, regarding the forms of individual autonomy and governmentality thereby generated. This thesis raises the

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